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Roman Polanski – Ssaki aka Mammals (1962)
“Waiting for Godot” on ice and snow, without words. Against a barren winter landscape, a figure approaches: it’s a man, pulling a small sleigh on which another man sits, plucking a dead bird. They...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Die Niklashauser Fart aka Niklashuasen Journey (1970)
In the 15th century, Hans Bohm, a shepherd, claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary. He began preaching and gathered around him thousands of disciples who believed him to be the New Messiah....
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Paolo Cavara – I malamondo (1964)
This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hog-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard. 0.99GB | 1h 20m | 528×400 | avi...
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Satyajit Ray – Mahapurush AKA The Holy Man AKA The Saint (1965)
Synopsis:A retired lawyer meets a holy man # Birinchi Baba (Charuprakash Ghosh) and his assistant (Robi Ghosh) # on his way back from a pilgrimage # and is totally taken in by his supernatural life....
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Vera Chytilová – Pytel blech AKA A Bagful of Fleas (1962)
Quote:Restored beautifully from a new 2k print, A Bagful of Fleas [Pytel Blech] is a pseudo documentary focussing on young female workers at a textile factory. Jana rebels against the regime within...
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Richard Balducci – Trop jolies pour être honnêtes AKA Quatre souris pour un...
Jane Birkin, Bernadette Lafont, Elisabeth Wiener and Emma Cohen are 4 pretty girls rooming together. After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women notice...
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Jonas Mekas – Walden – Diaries Notes and Sketches (1964)
Quote:Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American “underground” cinema, shot literally miles of impromptu film on a tiny, touch-and-go Bolex camera before assembling his first “diary film” and screening it...
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Wim Wenders – Polizeifilm (1969)
Quote from Wenders:” It’s a film about the Munich police and their new tactics for dealing with the student situation in 1968. It showed their efforts to work in a more sophisticated and psychological...
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Theodoros Angelopoulos – Anaparastasi AKA Reconstruction (1970)
Synopsis wrote:The film is based on an actual event, the murder of a Greek worker living in Germany by his barmaid wife Eleni and her lover Christos, who falsify the evidence of the husband’s return...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Der amerikanische Soldat AKA American Soldier (1970)
Quote:The German-born American GI Ricky (Karl Scheydt) returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s experimental noir is a subversive,...
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Werner Herzog – Letzte Worte AKA Last Words (1968)
Quote:The story of a solitary man who refuses to leave a Greek island (at one time a leper colony) is told by a strange variety of characters who don’t have much to say except to repeat their tellings...
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Christian-Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Werner Klingler & Terence Young – La guerra...
Synopsis:‘The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different operations that he was involved in with colleagues in Paris and Djibouti, Rome, and Berlin.’ ‘La guerre secrete is...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Botan-dôrô AKA Peony Lantern Ghost Story (1968)
Quote:Shinzaburo flees an unwanted marriage with his brother’s widow and lives quietly as a teacher distanced from his family. On the night of the summer Obon festival, he meets a beautiful courtesan...
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Tetsuji Takechi – Kôkeimu AKA The Dream Of The Red Chamber (1964)
Quote:Takechi’s third film, The Dream of the Red Chamber or Crimson Dream (Kokeimu, 1964), was released less than two months after Daydream. The film depicts the lurid and violently erotic dreams of a...
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Vera Chytilová – O necem jinem AKA Something Different (1963)
Quote:Two stories are simultaneously told. One dutiful mother progressively becomes a frustrated woman who is the only one assuming the family responsibilities of working at home and looking after her...
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Satyajit Ray – Two AKA Parable Two (1965)
Quote:From Oscars’s youtube account:In 1964, renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray was asked to create a short film for ‘ESSO World Theater’, a cultural showcase presented on television and funded by the...
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Theodoros Angelopoulos – Ekpombi AKA Broadcast (1968)
Synopsis:Angelopoulos’ first (completed) film won the Hellenic Association of Film Critics prize in 1968 for best short fiction film. It is a witty dismantling of media celebrity that uncannily...
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Lucio Fulci – Le massaggiatrici AKA The Masseuses (1962)
Synopsis:Jason M wrote:In the midst of his early comedic period, Fulci directs this somewhat screwball-ish comedy about two businessmen Parodi (Ernesto Calindri) and Manzini (Luigi Pavese) seeking to...
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Satyajit Ray – Mahanagar AKA The Big City (1963)
Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman. 2.68GB | 2h 16m | 770×576 | mkv...
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Joyce Wieland – Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)
Rat Life and Diet in North America is a short film that tells a story about rats (actually pet gerbils) held as political prisoners in the United States (their jailer a cat), who make a heroic escape...
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